Free Speech

YouTube censored an interview between world famous podcaster Joe Rogan and Consultant Cardiologist and Chief of the Division of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Peter McCullough about the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s Episode Sixteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about how Big Tech censored a video lecture about the evils of socialism.

On Tuesday, the video platform Rumble announced that it was terminating its business relationships with the Unruly Group and Tremor International over its censorship of Fox News, podcast, and radio talk show host Dan Bongino.

Veteran Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth told Axios, “If your democracy can’t tolerate the speech of people, I’m not sure what kind of democracy it is … [Facebook is] a fundamentally democratic technology.” This is paradoxical considering how much Facebook has engaged in biased censorship in the past year.

A new analysis reveals the extraordinary left-wing bias of website ratings firm NewsGuard, which should concern every American given that it is expanding its reach into cable and broadcast TV news. Liberal outlets were rated 27 points higher on average than news organizations on the right.

A Hezbollah media outlet slammed “zionists” after a parody account seemingly got the outlet kicked off Twitter.

A recent Politico podcast detailed the importance of Twitter in the new age, but the platform has a history of amplifying some voices more than others.

Kyle Rittenhouse said his Instagram account was disabled again just days after his social media accounts were reinstated. Rittenhouse was acquitted of all criminal charges against him.

Meta is doubling down on its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to detect alleged “harmful content,” even though AI algorithms have been shown to be biased or error-prone in censoring content.

A leftist figurehead blatantly told lawmakers on Thursday that social media companies should treat woke elites and ordinary people differently. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said social media companies should sanitize their platforms of “misinformation” and “hate speech” in testimony for a House Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing.

According to a new study on algorithms, Google is the search engine with the most “conspiracy-free” search results. The study, from professors at German and Swiss universities, examined how algorithms filter “conspiratorial information” in search results. The research “examine[d] the distribution of conspiratorial information in search results across five search engines: Google, Bing,…

Twenty-four members of Congress are urging Google to stop its suppression of pro-life voices and reinstate…

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) repeatedly praised U.K. regulation of social media platforms and called for the U.S. to adopt the U.K. model at a Dec. 8 Senate hearing on Instagram. Both the U.K. government and Blumenthal tend to support increased censorship and restrictions of online speech, however.

Comedian, actor and commentator Russell Brand called out the fact that Twitter once represented the Wild West of free speech, but has since become a machine for controlling public opinion. The unexpected rise of former President Donald Trump propelled the shift, he observed.